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Highlights - Release Areas W09-6, W09-7 and W09-8, Northern Exmouth Plateau, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia

In this section

Overview

Bids Close - 29 April 2010

  • Designated Frontier Area Tax Concession applies to Release Areas W09-6, W09-7 and W09-8.
  • Deepwater frontier of Australia's premier hydrocarbon province.
  • Large un-drilled Release Areas with potential for new play types.
  • Triassic coal measures and carbonate reef facies intersected in Ocean Drilling Program stratigraphic wells.
  • Fault block and structural/stratigraphic traps.
  • New multi-client 2D seismic grid available.
  • Special Notices apply, refer to Guidance Notes.
Quicklook - Northern Exmouth Plateau

Northern Exmouth Plateau Play elements

Source

Potential Triassic source rocks - coaly fluvio-deltaic Mungaroo facies (Norian coals intersected in ODP drilling); and possible marine source rocks predicted in Early Triassic Locker Shale

Reservoir

Triassic fluvio-deltaic sandstones and Late Triassic carbonate reefal limestones

Seal

Regional seal - Cretaceous deepwater shales

Traps

Triassic fault block traps, potential reefal stratigraphic traps

Infrastructure and Markets

Frontier area with no established infrastructure, over 200 km from Rankin Trend export LNG development, potential for FPOS or floating LNG

Graticular Block Listing

Release Area W09-6, Northern Exmouth Plateau, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia

Map Sheet SE 50 (Rowley Shoals)

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Assessed to contain 92 full blocks

Release Area W09-7, Northern Exmouth Plateau, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia

Map Sheet SE 50 (Rowley Shoals)

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Assessed to contain 110 full blocks

Release Area W09-8, Northern Exmouth Plateau, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia

Map Sheet SE 50 (Rowley Shoals)

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Assessed to contain 94 full blocks

Graticular Block Map

Graticular Block Map - Northern Exmouth Plateau
For convenience, geographical coordinates shown on this map are expressed in terms of the Geocentric Datum or Australia 1994 (GDA94). Permit areas are defined by the 5 minute graticular block system set out under Section 16 of the Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006; under Sections 20, 21 and 21A of the Act, the position of those blocks is determined by reference to the Australian Geodetic Datum (AGD66).
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